It's almost as if the price was artificially pumped and the stocks are now being dumped in order to take advantage of the unscrupulous...

While it is theoretically true that you can turn one distro into another, in practice it's not worth it. It's the same thing as trying to sell someone on "you never need to reboot to apply updates or fix things." Ye, technically true, but unless you're maintaining huge corporate servers where downtime is measured in dollars, 9 times out of 10, it's just easier to reboot and see if it fixes the issue. And yes, it will often still fix the issue.

The reason for distro hopping etc is because picking a distro is essentially choosing your defaults/ideology/character alignment. There are no wrong answers. Just go with what feels right. Newbies should distro hop to see how they align, experienced users should do it for fun and to see if a different way suits them better.

We should be herding beginners towards beginner friendly distros so they don't run into a cliff of a learning curve, but which specific one is basically arbitrary.

As for your other examples: Don't let your dreams be dreams. You can 100% use batocera as server if you like, it's entirely possible. You're just going to have to dedicate a shitload of time coercing into a server shape... but nothing's stopping you

Excellent. It's nice to know my 1080p 60hz content will have lots of room to spread out

Ha ha ha, ye this caused a lot of "problems" early on (read: trolled a lot of homophobes) so much so that they updated the UI for that section to include a picture of the doll. I thought they did it deliberately and thought it was hilarious

over the alleged sharing of confidential material by the former prince with late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein

Really? Not because he's a sex offender himself maybe? I'm happy to see an arrest, but fucking really!?

anything on that phone is looong gone. The phone itself is probably long gone. Probably best to stop thinking of them like a police force who keep evidence and stuff. They're the Gestapo.

what did you expect?

I heard he was rushed straight to John Hopkins Landscaping

the world

I know it may feel that way, but I assure you, the rest of the world is watching the US right now like this:

Thoughts and prayers, bitch

My guess is those new massive screens that they use instead

LED volumes

I said exactly this about Bryan Johnson a little while back. Someone was trying to defend his weirdness by claiming he was just trying to help humanity, and I was like BS. He's trying to help himself. If he ever DOES find a way to significantly extend human life, you can bet your ass that it'll be patented and cost a fucking fortune. Only him and his billionaire cronies will be able to afford it.

content that appears, in our judgment, to depict sexual conduct involving a minor

I'm assuming they don't mean a suggestive camera pan, but actually something problematic on screen, in which case, I totally support the ban. Devs were given the opportunity to change it, and they said no. Ban away imho. The fact that this is considered controversial is pretty disturbing to me.

The problem isn't digital id, it's the implementation.

The Estonian system is a great example of digital ID done well. It blocks unauthorized access to your data at a policy and technical level. So even if they change the laws, the technology means it's literally impossible to make the system disclose information without your consent.

That being said, anything the current US govt. tries to implement around this should probably be treated with heavy distrust.

My dad used to be a police officer in South Africa. He had several interesting artifacts from his time there.

One such artifact was an unmarked black cylinder with a spray nozzle. One day after school, I had managed to get locked out of one section of the house and could only get into the kitchen and my dad's office. (Houses in SA often have security gates inside locking off sections of the house.)

It was sitting in this office, waiting for someone else to get home and let me in that I absent mindedly started playing with this cylinder. I sprayed a small bit out. It made made a really cool heat haze effect in the air. Awesome, but what the fuck was this stuff? Well I'd just had a highschool science lesson on how to test an unknown gas... you waft it towards yourself, you do not sniff it directly. So I sprayed out a bit more and wafted it carefully towards my face...

Instant regret. My nose felt like I'd just done a netti pot of hot sauce. Eyes streaming, snot dripping.

Lesson 1 learned. Don't play with random cylinders of mysterious chemicals.

I found out later that it was tear gas.

Hey pop quiz: What's the worst thing you can do if you get tear gassed?

That's correct! My dumb ass ran straight for the kitchen tap. Lesson 2. DO NOT USE WATER to clean off tear gas. I will say that I knew IMMEDIATELY that I had fucked up a second time. Felt like my entire face was on fire. Baaaad times!

Games similar to portal:

• The Talos Principle 1 & 2
• Antichamber
• Superliminal
• Viewfinder
• Manifold Garden

Similar to Firewatch:

• Umurangi Generation
• Return of the Obra Dinn

Other stuff that might interest you that I haven't seen already recommended:

• Journey
• Abzu
• Exo One
• Wytchwood
• Cairn (tentatively. This game can get stressful)
• Dinkum
• Untitled Goose Game
• A Lego game (Any of them. They all follow the same formula)
• Flower

No idea if any of those work on Mac though. If you have an intel based mac you can use bootcamp to dual boot windows, and unlock maaaaany games.

Hey America, could you, like, do something about your fascist dictator please? He's getting really 4th reich-y

Musk's personal stash

What I wouldn't give (or pay) for a 1. sleek, modern smartphone 2. running a pure Linux distro 3. that's feature complete enough to daily drive

All of the current options available fall down in one of the three areas. Usually 2. and 3... mostly 3.